"Till" is the new film about the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till - a crime that helped spark the civil rights movement. The movie has opened to rave reviews, and got us thinking about the October 24, 2004"60 Minutes" report on Emmett Till's death from our late colleague Ed Bradley. We wanted to share some excerpts of that award-winning story:
"Did anybody say, 'Look, here are the do's and the don'ts about going to Mississippi? You do this, you don't do that'?" Emmett and his cousins raced home that day and hoped nothing would come of what Emmett had done. But three days later, Carolyn Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, went looking for Emmett in the middle of the night, and found him and his cousins at the home of Reverend Mose Wright, Emmett's late great-uncle.
In one of the final interviews she gave in 2003, Mamie Till said,"I looked at his teeth, because I took so much pride in his teeth. His teeth were the prettiest things I'd ever seen in my life, I thought. And I only saw two. Where were the rest of them? They'd just been knocked out." Sixty-four-year-old Mose Wright, grand-uncle of Emmett Till, stood up in the packed courtroom when asked to identify who came to his home on the night of August 28, 1955, and took young Till away with them. Wright pointed a finger at defendants Roy Bryant and John W. Milan and answered,"There they are.
That was 67 years ago. Can we talk about what young black people are doing to our cities now.
Such a tragedy. And half of America has yet to learn from it 😮💨
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